The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Growth of the Medical Missionary Work

At the graduating exercises of the Sanitarium Missionary Nurses class, held in the Tabernacle, Nov. 5, 1895, Dr. Kellogg said: GSAM 373.2

“A dozen years ago, at an exercise of this kind, two nurses graduated. At the present time there is a corps of between three and four hundred nurses. There are nineteen physicians at the sanitarium, and twenty-two at similar institutions, more or less connected with the sanitarium, and under the supervision of the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association. Fifty-three of our nurses are in different foreign countries,in Sweden, Old Mexico, Gold Coast of Africa, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, India, New Zealand, Samoa, and British Guiana. There are sixty-three medical students now in training. Forty-one of these are here, twenty-two at the University of Michigan and other schools. Twenty-two nurses graduate here to-night who are fully prepared to go forth as approved nurses. GSAM 373.3

In tracing the growth of our health institutions to 1902, we find the Battle Creek Sanitarium, with its medical college and training school for nurses, to be the largest institution of the kind in the world owned by Seventh-day Adventists. GSAM 373.4